Wassim Samih Seifeddine<\/p>\n
15 May 2026\u2022Update: 15 May 2026<\/p>\n
The second day meetings of the third round of Israel-Lebanon direct talks began on Friday at the US State Department in Washington, an informed source told Anadolu.<\/p>\n
Further details on the meeting were not immediately available.<\/p>\n
Talks that began Thursday evening had concluded after several hours of discussions.<\/p>\n
A State Department official earlier told Anadolu that the US is being represented by Counselor Michael Needham, US envoy to Israel Mike Huckabee, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa.<\/p>\n
From the Lebanese side, Ambassador Nada Hamadeh, and presidential special envoy Simon Karam were present.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, Deputy National Security Adviser Yossi Draznin, and senior military representatives are attending on behalf of Israel.<\/p>\n
Since March 2, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed at least 2,896 people, injured over 8,824, and displaced more than 1.6 million, about one-fifth of the country\u2019s population, according to Lebanese officials.<\/p>\n
The Israeli army continues daily strikes in Lebanon and exchanges of fire with Hezbollah despite a ceasefire that was announced on April 17 and later extended until May 17.<\/p>\n
*Writing by Rasa Evrensel in Istanbul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wassim Samih Seifeddine 15 May 2026\u2022Update: 15 May 2026 The second day meetings of the third round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-443271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}